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A Sense of Where You Are; A Profile of Princeton's Bill Bradley
by McPhee, John
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- good
- first
- Condition
- Good/good
- Seller
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Avon, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1965. First edition. Cloth. Good/good. Small hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. Stated first edition. 144 pp plus a suite of black and white photographs at the rear of the volume. First printing of McPhee's first book. A good only copy with some light staining to the black cloth covers, a spine roll and general light wear throughout. The price-intact dustwrapper has the typical fade to the spine colorand is generally edgeworn. A place-holder copy of this important debut by McPhee, one of the most revered writers of non-fiction in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Synopsis
When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are , McPhee's first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates for the reader the training and techniques that made Bradley the extraordinary athlete he was, and this part of the book is a blueprint of superlative basketball. But athletic prowess alone would not explain Bradley's magnetism, which is in the quality of the man himself—his self-discipline, his rationality, and his sense of responsibility. Here is a portrait of Bradley as he was in college, before his time with the New York Knicks and his election to the U.S. Senate—a story that suggests the abundant beginnings of his professional careers in sport and politics.
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- Bookseller
- Derringer Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34498
- Title
- A Sense of Where You Are; A Profile of Princeton's Bill Bradley
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Basketball, Journalism, First Book
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature / First Editions;
Terms of Sale
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